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this board is now being told what to do by some one from the owc website.

after looking at the owc web site today i ask what interest do they have in gaa?

the answer is to destroy it.

what interest does this other mc afee at owc have in gaa?does he even exist?

Gaaboardmod3 abused his power in the past to ban me for one week when i should have just been warned.

i got a message today from gaaboardmod3 telling me to change my name because someone on the owc website also has that name and that my name on this board would be deleted at 3 pm.

not only do they want to hurt tony fearon but do they want to control this gaa board as well or is a mod abusing his power because he doesnt like me?

the gaa is the great thing about being irish.its stood strong over a century of british oppression and murder.i am not going to give in to it so i will close my account before they do.

you might not like what i say but i think it is sad that i cant post because of a person who i think has not interest in gaa but to destroy it says so.

remember that our revenge will be the laughter of our children but that and peace will not come until ireland is free.

if you dont see this later you know that owc want to hide the truth.

ive posted my exchange below

goodbye.and i hope kerry hammer tyrone.

Gaaboardmod3

I'm going to delete this account this evening. You are using the real name of a member of the OWC forum, who has contacted the forum. I will give you until 3 o'clock to save personal messages or whatever you need to do, unless you post anything inflammatory in the meantime in which case you will be banned.

You are free to re-register, but please be aware that the mods will know your new identity, and any warnings you are carrying will be applicable to the new user name.

Thanks.






my reply

my board name has nothing to do with the owc forum.it is my real name.

i never visited the owc forum until today and i have no idea what you are talking about.

i find it unbelieveable that i am being told to change my board name because some one who might have the same name who does not post here does not like it.

seamus mc afee.




reply by Gaaboardmod3

If it is a genuine duplication of name, then that is unfortunate. The way you have carried on recently, and the posts you have made, make me doubt that is genuine.

I also believe you used his avatar here as well originally. Is that also false?

If this is just a pure coincidence, that someone with such anti-OWC views shares a name with such a prominent OWC person, then I would ask you to send me that on. I will pass it on to the person who contacted us, and hopefully he will agree.

I gravely doubt it though.

If I'm wrong, I apologise, but I don't apologise for finding your behavoiur recently out of order.





my final reply

seamus mc afee is my real name.

is it wrong to hold different views to some one else?i dont apologise for the views i hold,views that pc people like yourself try to supress on a board that allows people with no interest in gaa to attack it.

i do not know anything about an avatar.

where is the proof that this member of owc website exists?

i feel that this coincidence is being used as an excuse to ban me here for life.i remember you banning me for 1 week under rule 4 when i should have just been warned.just because you might not like me is no excuse for abusing your power.

this is the last i will talk to you as i find your actions unreasonable.

goodbye.

seamus mc afee

and i want to hear gaaboardmod3 why was i banned?

when i went to log in it said i was banned for rule 4 but in the rules i should have got just a warning.

someone trying to show how big they are?

i expect this post to be edited or made to vanish.

[then we really are in a crisis]

http://www.southernstar.ie/article.php?id=890

WHAT have we done to Gaelic football? If what we witnessed over the past weekend between eight of the top teams in Ireland is modern day Gaelic football, then we really are in a crisis.

Imagine two inter-county teams going 25 minutes without scoring a single point as Kildare and Fermanagh did on Sunday. Some of the attempts at kicking the football were almost laughable.

In fact it would have been funny if it weren't so serious for the game itself. This was, truly, atrocious stuff in three of the four games and that fourth game, Kerry v Monaghan, was not about football but about survival and winning.

What is happening to Gaelic football? It is being coached into extinction. A game that should be about the skills of kicking a ball properly is now all about running and handpassing. The sad thing is that those in a position at the top to do something are showing no inclination to do so.

It would be safe to say that they just haven't a clue what to do. If an u.12 team went 25 minutes without scoring we would be laughing. It was no laughing matter on Sunday, it was sad. What could be a great game has been totally destroyed.

First off are the destructive tactics we see being used by all teams to prevent the other team from playing. Every inter-county team now has video analysts and strategy planners and every team is minutely examined for weak points. We are analysing football into the grave.

Secondly, the total over-emphasis on physical fitness in Gaelic football has done terrible damage on two fronts. It has made players so fit that space on the pitch is at a premium and if I counted the number of times a player in possession was surrounded by a group of players in every game at the weekend it would have easily reached a hundred.

Thirty fit players in a small area will always produce the negative, destructive play we witness in every game these days. The time has come to either seriously curtail the unacceptable amount of training amateur players are asked to do, or reduce the number on each team to thirteen. Something must be done to create space to play.

BASIC SKILLS

Too much emphasis on physical training also means that the basic skills like kicking a football properly are not done at all, or very little. Coaches keep devising training programmes that involve running and more running but how much running is needed to kick a football properly?

Some of the attempts at scoring points at the weekend had to be seen to be believed and how many footballers today are capable of kicking a ball more than 30m? Maybe it would be worth investigating the weight of the modern footballs? To my way of thinking, they have become too light, just like soccer balls, and it is almost impossible to kick them straight. Just as the modern sliotar is far too light as well.

Of course we all know what is really destroying Gaelic football and that is the overuse of the handpass. Every team now which wins possession in its own backline will try to play the ball out of defence with a series of handpasses, frequently criss-crossing its own goalmouth in the attempt. How often do we see up to twenty handpasses before the ball is kicked forward?

This short passing is leading to blanket defences, numbers massing in defence to prevent the ball getting through. The forwards are given time to funnel back into defence because the ball is held up at midfield in the effort to retain possession. Surely, long accurate kicking is the answer to beating these massed defences. Kerry won on Sunday because they used the long ball into Donaghy. Simple as that.

I was disgusted to see Tyrone back in Croke Park with all their negative football. I blame them for much of what has happened to football over the past decade and am no fan of Micky Harte and his legacy to Gaelic football.

Is there any possibility of banning the handpass in Gaelic or limiting its use considerably? Is there any possibility that teams would just go out and play to the best of their ability without all these tactics and negative approaches? Is there any possibility that all underage players would be taught to kick the ball properly before they graduate to adult ranks?

This sickness in Gaelic football, especially the dying art of kicking the ball properly, is not just happening at intercounty level, it is also destroying club football. I recently saw my own club team being relegated because they kicked sixteen wides in the play-off, failing miserably in the skill of kicking the ball between the posts. The players could run all day up and down the field, but we are not looking for athletes in Gaelic, we are looking for footballers and the basic skill in football should always be kicking the ball.

DEAD RIGHT

'Puke football' Pat Spillane called this type of modern football and he was dead right for once. What probably made it worse, if it could be much worse, was the outstanding hurling fare we had witnessed in Thurles the previous weekend.

It is hard to believe sometimes that both games are under the control of the same association, so different are they in all respects. Attempts have been made to introduce some of the negative features of football into hurling but, thankfully, hurling has always won out in the end and long may it continue to do so.

It was no surprise that the hurling finals played over the past weekend, Christy Ring and Nicky Rackard, were thrillers in comparison with the football, but what a pity that the authorities are already treating these badly-needed competitions for weaker counties with a certain amount of disdain. Maybe those people are full of good intentions but money is their god and these hurling games don't draw the huge crowds. We only have to look at the special treatment being dished out to Dublin footballers to know that crowds and money now dictate all GAA policy. Poor Tyrone will have to play Dublin plus 60,000 screaming supporters in their own backyard, totally unfair.

It's a double-header for Cork teams on Sunday, assuming that the Kildare appeal falls by the wayside, which it should as they made their own bed by not winning the first round and having to come through the qualifiers. Going on what we saw of Kildare last Sunday, Cork should have the better of them but, as we have found to our cost, Cork often fail to take their Munster form into Croke Park.

We need Michael Cussen to step up to the plate in headquarters, like he always does against Kerry and it is clear from last weekend that the long, high ball into a big full forward is the only way to beat modern defences.

its a week late,but dead right.

["Without the back door system we would have been more successful over the last 10 years,"]

McDonnell wants qualifiers axed

Armagh star Steven McDonnell feels the GAA should scrap the qualifers because the so-called 'back door' system is unfair to provincial champions.

McDonnell wants to revert to the four provincial title winners playing in the All-Ireland semi-finals.

"Without the back door system we would have been more successful over the last 10 years," the Orchard County legend said in an Irish News interview.

"The system in place has definitely cost us a couple of All-Irelands."

Of the four counties through to the 2008 Championship, only Cork are provincial champions.

Kerry, who were beaten in the Munster final, are odds-on favourites to win the Sam Maguire trophy for a third successive year.

Next in the betting are Tyrone who did not even make the Ulster semi-finals after losing to Down.

"It is likely that you will have two teams in the final that came through the back door," added McDonnell.

"I would like to see the back door system done away with altogether.

"The Championship should be knock-out. There is a flaw in the system somewhere and it is somethnig the GAA has to look at."

The qualifiers have been in operation in football and hurling since 2001.

This year, Armagh won the Ulster Championship for the seventh time in 10 years but were then knocked out in the All-Ireland quarter-finals by Wexford.

Hey stevie,how did armagh reach the 2003 all ireland final?

cry baby.

the throw in for the dublin game vs tyrone this saturday is 4pm.

not 4.20pm,not 4.10pm,4pm

the gaa would like all supporters to be in croke park in time for the throw in.its a throw in,not a kick off.at 4pm.in fact we want you to be there for our national anthem.

finish up pints a bit earlier than before.we know the premiership starts on saturday too but please dont hang around until half time to leave the pub.

the game vs tyrone starts at 4pm.we wont delay it for latecomers.if youre late please show manners,dont crush other supporters also trying to get in.so get in for the game at 4pm.

if respect to the gaa is not shown tickets to dublin championship games in future will be cut.

finally if you go on  pitch after the game please dont strike a steward.hit someone who deserves it like ricey or dooher.

thank you.4pm.

yesterday in croke park was a great day for football.

wexford played a great last ten minutes to beat one of the ugliest,over hyped,anti-football counties of the 21st century that will not be missed by true gaels.they have the spirit of the gaa in them that fills with hope and joy to underdogs.

kerry and galway played the best game in croke park since 2000 in poor weather.the game as it should be played,no blanket defence,no diving,no cynical play,no third man tackle,no ten defenders around the player with the ball and some great scores.if brennan wants to make himself useful he should demand that a copy of this game is sent on dvd to every boy and girl playing in ulster.

after watching the heap of shit ireland saw last week that blocked the toilet yesterday saw it flushed down.

only dublin to i hope clean tyrone out next and the puke era will be over.

over the years watching gaa i have seen some teams that play dirty,get involved in gamesmanship,always complain and win at all costs.i thought that the current dublin team are bad and they do get a lot of stick but i dont think they even come close to this tyrone team of the past few years.lets look at them.

they are known all over ireland for their diving and overacting to win free kicks and get players booked and sent off.the so called great peter canavan always dived easy to win frees and penalties and tried to get two kerry defenders sent off in 2003 before he went off himself after hurting himself diving. brian mc guigan got dan gordon from down sent off in the ulster final in the same year and did a great dive in the all ireland final to earn an easy free.sean cavanagh likes flopping about the field and got a derry man sent off that year too.if he had took that afl contract with brisbane he wouldnt last five minutes.philip jordan got away with the best dive of all time against marsden and also dives about.brian dooher is a disgrace of a captain who recently got two westmeath players sent off.well done brian.

ricey mc menamin and conor gormley are two of the most skilless players to ever win an all ireland medal.gormley pulled off a fluke block in 2003 that hides how he tries to just bully and foul the players he marks.how he didnt get sent off against mayo on saturday i do not know.ricey is someone who even a dublin player would not do the things he does.if it isnt trying to break a players neck by sticking his knee in or biting the hands of a kerry forward hes always telling players on the other team how great there mums are in bed or racing up the field to injured players and roaring in their face cheered on by thousands of muck savages in red and white in omagh.pascal mc connell is another idiot who almost caused a riot on hill 16 in 2005 and poked the eyes out of gooch cooper in the all ireland final that year.

then you have mickey harte,the most arrogant man to ever take a team to all ireland glory who feels he can tell the rest of ireland how to win all irelands just because at the time he won one.like wenger he sees nothing wrong with what any of his players do on the field no matter how bad it is and tells the tyrone county board not to suspend dooher after he picked up a red card in a club game this year.he brought in the blanket defence which has killed football as a spectator sport.he encourages his players to surround the referee if he blows up anything against tyrone as well as getting them to waste time in holding the ball.in fact i believe too many referees are scared and intimidated of the tyrone players and their fans who think they invented football in 2003.

i have no love for dublin.i think that they are full of themselves and will shit it on the big stage.the quarter final on 16 aug looks to be the worst game of all time but by god if they kick the shit out of tyrone all over croke park they will be doing the gaa and football a big favour.

finally does anyone know if the tyrone team are staying in several caravans off the m50 before the game?